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(KUTV) — Alaina Allred's house and car are filled with plastic bags. "I'm a bag lady," she laughed. She has been collecting them for a very special project. "A lot of people just didn't know what to ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

Too often found flying around in the wind, piling up in the woods, students at College of the North Atlantic's Grand Falls-Windsor campus found a new life for plastic bags. "We were looking for a way ...

What’s six feet wide by two and a half feet deep, soft as a pillow, waterproof and perfect for sleeping outdoors? Pricy camping equipment fits the description above, but at the Sterling Heights Senior ...

FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) — Most of us have a pile of plastic bags at home, screaming to be re-used or recycled in some fashion. Kids in Fishers discovered not only an eco-friendly way to keep plastic bags ...

What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...

The ladies create and use "plarn," or plastic yarn, to make the mats. — -- A small group of mostly elderly women in Tennessee have transformed more than 10,000 discarded plastic bags into ...

Most people would consider the task of dealing with thousands of empty plastic grocery bags a burden, not a blessing. The Plarn People of Normandie Ridge welcome it. The group culls the bags that ...